Aspen Healthcare Forum 2018

Healthcare as an investment, from cost to social efficiency

Aspen Institute Romania(AIR) is organising the seventh edition of the Aspen Healthcare Forum in Bucharest.The event will take place on 23 October, at Hotel Ramada Park (Poligrafiei Bvd. 3 – 5A, Bucharest).

Aspen Healthcare Forum is a major public event of AIR’s Healthcare & Quality of Life program, bringing together decision-makers, renowned specialists from the medical sector, European and national experts in the fields of healthcare, health technology and pharmaceutical sector, representatives of academia and researchers, as well as industry leaders engaged in developing health policies. Last years’ participation of a number of experts from abroad contributed to setting up a program community and an agenda of thematic priorities in convergence with national priorities and advanced technological solutions as well as the EU regulatory framework and WHO goals.

Institutional Partners: Romanian Ministry of Health, Committee for Public Health of the Romanian Senate, Committee for Health and Family of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, National Health Insurance House, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balș”, National School of Public Health, Management and Professional Development, National Institute of Public Health

09:45 – 10:00 How data are shaping the future of healthcare
• Christoph Franz – Chairman of the Board of Directors, Roche Group

10:00 – 11:30 Promises of Future HealthcareThe panel will discuss how to set ambitions for the future in terms of patients’ access to quality healthcare services. The dawn of e-health means that communication and information technologies are becoming essential in the interaction between the patients and the medical staff and act as the transmission mechanism of medical data and health informatics data. There is a need to understand planning, sustainability, decision-making on a long-term basis – how will policy-makers succeed to transform specific innovations into better access to heathcare services?

14:15 – 15:45 Health and finance, an indispensable partnership: healthcare as an investment, sustainability of health funding. Getting serious about prevention.Increasing and diversifying financial resources for the health systems is a key condition for ensuring the system’s sustainability. This panel debates measures such as increasing the percentage of GDP allocated to healthcare, developing public – private partnerships, integrating prevention-based policies to decrease the need for treatment and stimulating private health insurance.